Hitting the blunt, then launching astronauts into space sounds like a great Rick and Morty episode. marijuana news 2018

But in the world of American mainstream political optics, SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience has become a bad look.

This week, NASA’s chief said the agency will investigate SpaceX in 2019 for adherence to federal drug-free workplace contracts, amid concerns about an unconventional corporate culture that starts at the top. SpaceX is located in Hawthorne, CA— a state where cannabis is legal for adult use.

“We need to show the American public that when we put an astronaut on a rocket, they’ll be safe,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the Washington Post in a Tuesday story.

The media turbulence isn’t slowing the innovator down. Musk’s car company Tesla turned a rare profit this year. On Friday, Musk’s The Boring Company completed a two-mile-long rapid-transit test tunnel in Los Angeles. Monday, Musk renamed SpaceX’s manned spaceship and upper stage from “BFR” to “Starship.” And now Musk wants to make his own Teslaquila.